educators

Like Animoto

Lots of practical

Great listing of Social Networks in Education

Great list of education-based social networks. Some are Ning based, all are categorized.

New research published in the journal Science confirms what all of us teachers have known for a long time: girls are just as smart as boys. I hope none of our tax dollars went into that one.

A quick quote from the article before I get into the more interesting findings from the researchers:

Overall, the researchers found "no gender difference" in scores among children in grades two through 11. Among students with the highest test scores, the team did find that white boys outnumbered white girls by about two to one. Among Asians, however, that result was nearly reversed. Hyde says that suggests that cultural and social factors, not gender alone, influence how well students perform on tests.

Presentation by Dean Shareski. Talks about our identity on the Internet, filtering.

Nice Blog Post from Edwin Wargo about vision and leadership. I particularly like this phrase about school culture:

"No matter how cool the technology tools, culture, I believe, will win the tug-of-war. There still may be a few trailblazers but systemic buy-in is likely to be minimal. I believe culture ensures the sustainability that Michael Fullan talks about."

Nice post about leadership

New Search Engine from ex google engineers plans to compete with Google - Called "Cuil" - this article outlines the story.

Edublogs has it's own "youtube" geared for education. You can import youtube videos directly. Good video source for those districts where Youtube is blocked.

video to use for PBL workshops

Search engine from ex-google exmployee (pronounced "cool")

Great post w/ new take on "Brain Rules"

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Bernajean Porter works with educators everywhere to teach digital storytelling. She joined Tim in the NECC podcasting studio to talk about ISTE's new digital storytelling project and the newest digital storytelling frontier, Second Life.

Great article and interview w/David Warlick, Chris Lehmann for Scholastic Administrator

Video from UCLA on New Literacy

Is there such a thing as the Google Generation?

Yes, actually, but some of the characteristics of that group are spreading throughout all age groups. Libraries and governments need to work out how to react and adapt to this and some of the weaknesses of the Google Generation, and quickly.

Interesting post about the changing landscape of blogging. Applies to the edublogosphere as well in some respects.

links to scratch. There are links to tutorials and suggestions to how to teach scratch as a programming language.